Question | Answer | % Correct |
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1542 – Francisco de Orellana completed the first known navigation of which river ? | Amazon | 83%
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1768 – Captain James Cook sets sail from England on board which ship ?. | HMS Endeavour | 83%
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1977 – The Charter of the French Language is adopted by the National Assembly of which region ? | Quebec | 83%
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1944 – World War II: Charles de Gaulle enters which French city ? | Paris | 67%
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1914 – World War I: Which German colony surrenders to French and British forces after a 20-day campaign ? | Togoland | 67%
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1883 – The 1883 eruption of which volcano begins its final, paroxysmal, stage ? | Krakatoa | 50%
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1748 – The first Lutheran denomination in North America is founded in which city ?. | Philadelphia | 50%
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1791 – John Fitch is granted a United States patent for which invention ? | Steamboat | 50%
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1978 – Papal conclave: Albino Luciani is elected as which Pope ? | John Paul I | 33%
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1910 – Mother Teresa, nun, missionary, Catholic saint, and Nobel Prize laureate is born in which Eastern European city ? | Skopje | 33%
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1778 – The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in which country ? | Slovenia | 33%
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2009 – Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard is discovered alive in California after being missing for how many years ? | 18 | 17%
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1444 – A vastly outnumbered force of Swiss Confederates is defeated by the Dauphin Louis (future Louis XI of France) and his army of 'Armagnacs' near which Swiss city ? | Basel | 17%
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1940 – Which country becomes the first French colony to join the Allies under the administration of Félix Éboué, France's first black colonial governor ? | Chad | 0%
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1980 – John Birges plants a bomb at Harvey's Resort Hotel in which Nevada community ? | Stateline | 0%
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